Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tiki boom in Britain has been even more remarkable. In a country with a third as many people as the U.S., the book has sold 230,000 copies in eleven months. Another adventure yarn that has been racing Kon-Tiki in British bookstores is Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse (TIME, Jan. 23, 1950), a suspense-tilled story of the escape of British soldiers from a German prison camp in Silesia. It has sold 250,000 copies since its British publication two years...
Elsie (nobody knows her true name) is a typical sufferer from what Dr. Asher calls the "Munchausen syndrome," after the famed yarn-spinning baron. Her kind troops from hospital to hospital in psychopathic search of drama and attention. The Elsies, says Dr. Asher, often "seem to gain nothing except . . . discomfiture . . . Their initial tolerance to the more brutish hospital measures is remarkable, yet they commonly discharge themselves after a few days with operation wounds scarcely healed . . . Their effrontery is sometimes formidable, and they may appear many times at the same hospital. hoping to meet a new doctor on whom to practice...
Professor N. H. Pearson of Yale will speak on "Billy Budd: The King's Yarn" in this afternoon's session...
...Force Veteran Mark Allison first saw the jungles of the Amazon when he flew over them as a Pan Am pilot before the war. They fascinated him-and so did a little Brazilian's yarn about an unexplored Amazon valley region which promised gold and probably oil. But soon after he set out with his wife in a private plane to look for the promised land, Pilot Allison crashed and his wife was killed. Shorn of the will to go on as a pilot, Allison settled down in the dreary river town of Manaos, became a hard-drinking...
...authentic saga of World War II. The movie was filmed in the Philippines, so that even a fictional treatment might have preserved a semi-documentary tang. Instead, taken either as fiction or reportage, the picture turns out to be as counterfeit and hackneyed as a comic-book adventure yarn, and not nearly so well paced...